Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for OV language. Search instead for CIP+Language.

OV language

American  
[oh-vee] / ˈoʊˈvi /

noun

Linguistics.

  1. a type of language that has direct objects preceding the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as postpositions, suffixes, noun modifiers preceding nouns, adverbs preceding verbs, and auxiliary verbs following main verbs.

Etymology

Origin of OV language

O(bject) V(erb)

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.